Carlos Busser

Carlos Busser (10 January 1928-29 September 2012) was a Rear Admiral of the Argentine Navy during the Falklands War of 1982.

Biography
Carlos Busser was born on 10 January 1928 in Rosario, Argentina to a family of German descent. He became a Rear Admiral of the Argentine Navy, and in 1982 he led Operation Rosario, the amphibious operation that captured the Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom. He forced Governor Rex Hunt to surrender, but the war ended in an Argentine defeat and in December 1983 he retired. In 2009 he was put under house arrest for human rights abuses in Bahia Blanca during the 1970s Dirty War, and he died of a heart attack in 2012 at the age of 84.